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Champawat district 1,610 m

Champawat Weather Today: Temperature and by Month

Champawat is the old Chand capital, on the road from Tanakpur to Pithoragarh, at 1,610 m in Champawat district. The forecast below is for that height, refreshed every hour; under it, each month on 30 years of data.

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Champawat in numbers

Height
1,610 m (5,280 ft)
District
Champawat, Uttarakhand
From Delhi
406 km by road
From Haldwani
169 km by road
From Pithoragarh
74 km by road
Coldest month, January
2 to 13 °C
Warmest month, May
14 to 25 °C
Nights below freezing
5 a year
Snow
Rare
Wettest month, July
963 mm of rain

Weather in Champawat now

For 1,610 m, Champawat's own height, refreshed every hour. Temperatures in °C, times in IST.

12°C

Fog

Champawat, 1,610 m. Now, 18:59 IST

Wind
5 km/h
Humidity
99%
Tonight
down to 11°
Tomorrow
19° / 11°, dry
Sunrise, sunset
06:27, 17:20

What to wear tomorrow: a light layer for the evening.

The next 24 hours

  1. 12°Fog
  2. 12°Fog
  3. 12°Clear
  4. 12°Clear
  5. 12°Clear
  6. 12°Clear
  7. 12°Clear
  8. 11°Clear
  9. 11°Clear
  10. 11°Clear
  11. 11°Clear
  12. 11°Clear
  13. 11°Clear
  14. 13°Clear
  15. 16°Clear
  16. 17°Clear
  17. 19°Fair
  18. 19°Some cloud
  19. 19°Some cloud
  20. 19°Some cloud
  21. 18°Some cloud
  22. 17°Fair
  23. 16°Some cloud
  24. 13°Fair

The next 10 days

DaySkyHigh / lowRainWind
Clear12° 12°Dry5 km/h
Mostly clear19° 11°Dry9 km/h
Mostly clear21° 12°Dry9 km/h
Mostly clear21° 10°Dry10 km/h
Clear20° 12°Dry5 km/h
Clear18° 11°Dry8 km/h
Clear18° 11°Dry6 km/h
Partly cloudy18° 9°Dry6 km/h
Light rain showers20° 9°0.7 mm3 km/h
Clear20° 11°Dry6 km/h

Forecast for 1,610 m, updated . Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0); the daily figures are worked out by us.

Weather in Champawat by month

Champawat is coldest in January, when days reach 13 °C and nights fall to 2 °C on average; May is the warmest month, 25 °C by day and 14 °C at night. A frost is rare: about 5 nights a year fall below freezing. The monsoon brings 963 mm of rain in July; November and December are the driest months, with 15 and 19 mm.

0°10°20°30°Jan: 2 to 13 °C (mean night low to mean day high)JFeb: 4 to 15 °C (mean night low to mean day high)FMar: 7 to 19 °C (mean night low to mean day high)MApr: 11 to 23 °C (mean night low to mean day high)AMay: 14 to 25 °C (mean night low to mean day high)MJun: 17 to 25 °C (mean night low to mean day high)JJul: 18 to 23 °C (mean night low to mean day high)JAug: 18 to 23 °C (mean night low to mean day high)ASep: 16 to 23 °C (mean night low to mean day high)SOct: 11 to 21 °C (mean night low to mean day high)ONov: 7 to 18 °C (mean night low to mean day high)NDec: 4 to 15 °C (mean night low to mean day high)D
Champawat, monthly averages 1991 to 2020
MonthDay °CNight °CRain mmRainy daysSnow daysFrost nights
January13250704
February154771001
March197861400
April23111311600
May25142812100
June25179012500
July23189633100
August23187063000
September23164032700
October2111831300
November18715400
December15419300

When the sky is clear

The clearest skies come in January, November and December, with 3 to 7 rainy days a month on the 30-year averages; July and August are the wettest, with about 31 rainy days. Days run between 15 and 27 °C with little rain in November and December.

Weather near Champawat now

The nearest towns on the road, as the crow flies, with their temperature now and the day's high and low (tomorrow's, in the evening).

  • Lohaghat1,754 m, 7.2 km away11°Cleartomorrow 20° / 8°
  • Tanakpur255 m, 29.3 km away21°Mostly cleartomorrow 27° / 18°
  • Pithoragarh1,645 m, 30.1 km away14°Cleartomorrow 20° / 9°
  • Gangolihatabout 1,770 m, 35.9 km away14°Cleartomorrow 19° / 7°
  • Patal Bhuvaneshwarabout 1,600 m, 39 km away15°Mostly cleartomorrow 20° / 7°
  • Jageshwar1,870 m, 40.6 km away12°Cleartomorrow 19° / 6°

The road to Champawat, town by town, with the trains and flights: from Tanakpur, from Haldwani, from Delhi.

Questions travellers ask about Champawat's weather

  • The forecast at the top of this page gives it hour by hour for 1,610 m, Champawat's own height, from MET Norway's forecast, refreshed every hour. On the 30-year averages, a November day in Champawat reaches 18 °C and the night falls to 7 °C.

  • Champawat is coldest in January, when days reach 13 °C and nights fall to 2 °C on average; May is the warmest month, 25 °C by day and 14 °C at night. A frost is rare: about 5 nights a year fall below freezing.

  • Rarely, if ever: on the 1991 to 2020 averages Champawat has no snow days and only about 5 nights a year below freezing. The higher hills around it see snow most winters.

  • The clearest skies come in January, November and December, with 3 to 7 rainy days a month on the 30-year averages; July and August are the wettest, with about 31 rainy days. Days run between 15 and 27 °C with little rain in November and December.

  • 406 km by road, measured on OpenStreetMap; from Haldwani, the railhead, it is 169 km.

How we made this page

The forecast is MET Norway's (CC BY 4.0) for Champawat's map point at its own height, fetched every hour; the daily highs, lows and rain, the feel of the wind and the times of sunrise and sunset are worked out from it by us. The month-by-month figures are the Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis, 1991 to 2020, through Open-Meteo, set to the height of the town. The map point is from OpenStreetMap node/299449590 ('Champawat'); the height from the site's published figure (docs/research/altitudes.json); road distances from OpenStreetMap through the OSRM router. If anything here looks wrong, tell us on WhatsApp and we will correct it.

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